n/a

n/a

Mount Lawley Theatre, Perth, Australia

1993

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Musical

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-

-

Notes:
Written with Ron Blair; music by David King. Based on "I Promissi Sposi" by Alessandro Manzoni

Synopsis:
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STC's Wharf 1 Theatre

1996

Sydney Theatre Company

Currency Press, Sydney

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Play/Drama

12

12

9 cast version available

Notes:
Revised version of Property of the Clan

Synopsis:
One night on Blackrock Beach, an unspeakable act is perpetrated. This powerful play raises disturbing but potent questions about the way we live our lives in the 90s. What impact does the media have on our perceptions and behaviour? What effect does peer group pressure and the decay of family relationships have on today's teenagers? For the community of Blackrock - especially its youth - it's time to start looking for the answers.

NIDA Theatre, Sydney

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National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney

. Script in Rodney Seaborn Library, NIDA

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

9

7

doubling

Notes:
Based on the novel by Dorothy Hewett publ 1959

Synopsis:
It is the late 1950s and the Russians launch the first Sputnik. A group of women sweat in the Jumbuck Woollen Mills in Sydney for breadline wages. The whistle blows - grime is washed from faces, hair combed, lipstick applied- and the workers emerge, women again, leaving the factory behind them. Out into the evening streets, flashing neon lights and the journey home to family and lovers. Among them are Shirl, nineteen and four months pregnant; Dawnie, beautiful and fiercely chaste; Patty, singing in the dance halls; and Nell, an active Communist Party member. These women have their own dreams; but a common spirit binds them, and with Nell as their leader they will come together for the fight which lies ahead. . ..

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Musical

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Notes:
Music by Peter Allen

Synopsis:
Life of singer/songwriter Peter Allen

Sydney

1989

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ABC Publications, Sydney

1991

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Poems

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-

Notes:
music Saint-Saens

Synopsis:
Poems for an Australian audience, to accompany The Carnival of the Animals; a similar idea to Noel Coward's

Sydney

1998

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Currency Press, Sydney

1998

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3 act

Adaptation

20

17

doubling possible

Notes:
Adapted by Nick Enright & Justin Monjo from the novel by Tim Winton

Synopsis:
A sprawling stage adaptation of Tim Winton's enormously successful novel of the same name. A huge success at the 1998 Sydney & Perth festivals, the story follows the fluctuating fortunes of two families who inhabit a rambling old house in Perth. Both the novel and stage adaptation have proven to be major works and have each left an indelible mark on the Australian arts scene.

Ensemble Theatre, Sydney

1989

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Currency Press, Sydney

1990

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

3

3

-

Notes:
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Synopsis:
Felicity and Tom both have busy lives and demanding careers. Tom is travelling with his petulant protege Jason, the international tennis star, when Felicity receives a surprise call from an American boyfriend from her past. As she plans a candle-lit reunion dinner her highly stressed neighbour drops in . . . and so does her mother. The confusion becomes complete as each of them become involved in Felicity's evening.

Adelaide, Australia

1984

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Currency Press, Sydney

1984

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Adaptation

8

3

-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Moliere

Synopsis:
Usual story of nobleman parted from his riches

Melbourne

1978

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-

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Adaptation

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Sophocles; Written in collaboration with Frank Hauser

Synopsis:

Adelaide, Australia

1982

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-

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Childrens

Youth Audience

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-

-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:

Theatre Nepean

1997

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1997

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Full-Length 120 mins

Play/Drama

-

-

-

Notes:
a reworking of First Class Women

Synopsis:
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New Theatre, Sydney

1982

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New Theatre Script

1982

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

3

7

1c

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
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1980

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Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>

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Stage play

One Act

4

2

-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:

Premiere Q Theatre, Sydney

1994

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Currency Press, Sydney

1995

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

8

4

doubling poss

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
Provides us with a window into the lives of two Irish Catholic families, the Donovans and the Kennedys. Spanning several decades and three generations, this compelling story exposes some of the darker moments that colour many of our family histories. It is a play of remarkable insight, clarity and emotion that has earned a place of considerable importance in the national repertoire.

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1972

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Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>

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entertainment two acts

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8

4

-

Notes:
freely based on 'A servant of two masters' by Carlo Goldoni

Synopsis:

Adelaide, Australia

1980

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-

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Adaptation

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-

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Carlo Gozzi

Synopsis:

Sydney Theatre Company

2002

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-

-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

2 Acts

Play/Drama

4

4

-

Notes:
This play takes place over twenty-eight years in two locations: in Australia during the last quarter of the twentieth century, and in the mind of the film-maker. Nominated, Best New Australian Work Award, 2002 Helpmann Awards

Synopsis:
In the early 1970s Gerry, a young film-maker, begins to track the lives of five young Australians. All he asks of them is a day out of each year of their lives, a day when he will follow them with a camera, charting their growth and development by interviewing and observing them. But as the years roll on, and the annual instalment of Five Children becomes a national chronicle, their lives becomes his. Are they his subjects or his children? Or his creations?

Adelaide, Australia

1983

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Script in the Hanger Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Australia. http://www.austlit.edu.au >>>

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5 Act

Play/Drama

4

8

or 5F, 7M.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Beaumarchais

Synopsis:
This celebrated and humane comedy by Beaumarchais takes place on one mad day when the valet Figaro keeps trying to marry the maid Suzanne despite all obstacles. This is one of the great plays of the 18th Century and of course the basis for Mozart's opera. This translation was commissioned and first performed by Lighthouse for The State Theatre Company of South Australia in 1984.

Ensemble Theatre, Sydney

1991

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Currency Press, Sydney

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

3

3

-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
Burke is an ex-con. O'Hara is an invalid. Both are mongrels, and both are writers. United by their tenacity as well as by their relationship with the powerful Elaine, they make an uneasy bond, a bond forged out of rivalry, affection and suspicion. Mongrels is a highly adult play, brutal and comic by turns, a study of love, ambition and human capacity for survival, set in the ferment of the Australian theatre in the 1970s.

Adelaide, Australia

1981

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Childrens

Youth Audience

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Notes:
-

Synopsis:

the State Theatre Company of South Australia, Adelaide

1979

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Adaptation

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Notes:
play Joan Littlewood

Synopsis:

the State Theatre Company of South Australia, Adelaide

1980

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Currency Press, Sydney

1982

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Musical Play

Musical

10

4

doubling

Notes:
The phrase 'on the wallaby' means tramping, e g during the Depression

Synopsis:
A musical play which traces through the Depression of the lives of a Port Adelaide family. The misfortunes of the O'Briens are seen in the light of the strategies and manipulations of the politicians of the time; while at another level the author presents us with the death of musical hall theatre and the arrival of radio entertainment.

Sydney Theatre Company

1996

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Two 1 Act Plays

One Act

5

4

doubling

Notes:
The two plays can be done separately.

Synopsis:
Memories light the corners of my mind& Two linked plays about growing up in the outer western suburbs of Sydney. The first, THE WAY I WAS, looks at adolescence and the confusion of young love. The companion piece, WHERE ARE WE NOW? jumps twenty years to Warwick the successful TV host returning to his roots in supposed triumph, but it becomes a night of emotional reunion with the past.

Marian Street Theatre, Sydney

2001

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-

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

2 Acts

Play/Drama

2

1

-

Notes:
The play was the last production of the theatre company

Synopsis:
Five years ago, Haddon Grey was an actor at the zenith of his profession. Now, disabled by a stroke, and too proud to be seen by his friends, colleagues or public, on or off the stage, he lives alone and perhaps in penury, a long way from the city which once acclaimed him. But Thelma Cayley has her own reasons to be concerned for Haddon's welfare. She hires Jez, a young and inexpert actor, to present himself to the reclusive older man as a potential student. But the lessons on offer are lessons in life; the young student becomes a witness and then a participant in the relationship of two complex and vulnerable people. And in the end, the lessons are not only for the young.

Newcastle, New South Wales

1992

Freewheels Theatre in Education

Currency Press, Sydney

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One Act

2

2

doubling poss

Notes:
Commissioned by Freewheels Theatre In Education Company in Newcastle, and first performed in 1992.

Synopsis:
I never even knew her! More than to say hello to. What do you want me to do? Bawl my eyes out like all the girls? What do you want me to say? I'm sorry? Course I'm sorry. What happened to her shouldn't happen to a dog. What else? What else do you want to hear? What you felt. What you're feeling."

The Ensemble Theatre (Sydney)

1995

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

2 Acts

Play/Drama

4

6

doubling poss

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
Rigoletto, its staff of four and some of its clientele, a multi-cultural, multi-purpose, multi neurotic bunch, are united in their need for company. And caffeine. 'The Quartet from Rigoletto' is dedicated to the proposition that the greatest gift in life may be the ability to make the perfect short black. Nick Enright comments "I spend a lot of my life in cafe society . . . I go there for the coffee, the food, the back numbers of magazines I wouldn't be caught dead buying and, of course, the people. The passers by. The staff: cheerful, abstracted, suicidal, brisk, vengeful, what will it be today? The customers: lost souls like myself who come to work on that novel, comb the classifieds, deconstruct that movie, reconstruct that relationship, kill that hour, plan that life.." A light, breezy romantic comedy.

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

2

2

-

Notes:
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Synopsis:
Four archetypal figures from the "classic" rock and roll era - JET, the Rebel; ANGEL, the Devil Woman, PAGLIACCI, the Clown Who Cried; and VELVET, the Little Girl Blue; - fear that their best days are gone. Their music has lost any rebellious potency it might once have had. The four take off in a small plane, intent on crashing it on the site of the old Sydney Stadium and perishing in the fashion of Buddy Holly, before they get old.

Adelaide, Australia

1978

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Adaptation

8

3

-

Notes:
written with Ron Blair, play by Goldoni

Synopsis:
the terrible complications wrought by Truffaldino when he gets engaged as a servant by two different people at the same time

Adelaide, Australia

1985

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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One Act

8

3

-

Notes:
music Graham Dudley, story Anderson

Synopsis:
One act opera in based on the story by Hans Christian Anderson.

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1999

Australian Theatre for Young People

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

2 Acts

Play/Drama

7

7

doubling poss

Notes:
This play was commissioned by Australian Theatre For Young People, and has since been produced by drama schools and community youth theatres. It can be performed by a large ensemble cast in a number of combinations.

Synopsis:
A spurboard is a solid wooden structure on which bareback riders train; it can train muscles and judgment, but it doesn't buck like a real bronc. Four young people in a rural town in western NSW mount the spurboard as they face the end of school and challenge of choosing a path in life. For Mitchell, high school dropout and skilled rider, it's the thrills and spills of the weekend rodeo circuit; for his high-achieving brother Greg, it's the night sky seen through his grandfather's telescope. For Mitchell's girlfriend Amy, it's a job in her mother's beauty salon as she commits herself to Mitchell for better or worse; for Amy's best friend Karen, it's flight from an abusive and uncaring family to the Police Academy and a rookie posting in the Big Smoke.

Q Theatre, Penrith NSW

1992

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Currency Press, Sydney

1992

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

4

2

-

Notes:
Commissioned by, and first produced by, NIDA in 1990 under the title St James Infirmary Blues; first professional (i e non-student) production Q Theatre, Penrith NSW, in 1992

Synopsis:
In a Catholic boys' boarding school during the Vietnam war a gifted young artist makes a stand against Australia's involvement in the conflict. His fall from grace divides the school and the people closest to him, particularly the young matron of the school infirmary.

Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre

1989

Sydney Theatre Company

Currency Press, Sydney

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Musical

6

7

six musicians

Notes:
a musical by Nick Enright and Terence Clarke. Commissioned by, and first produced by, NIDA in 1983 in the Parade Theatre, Sydney

Synopsis:
the proprietor of the only pub in town emerges: 'We got no rooms.' The troupe is about to leave when the clouds open, ending a long drought, flooding the creek, and closing the bridge. Town and Troupe are stuck with each other. The Troupe has no money, so they suggest putting on a show in the School of Arts. The past is faced, reconciliation follows.

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

6

6

doubling poss

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
A troupe of travelling comics/clowns perform their version of Leoncavallo's opera "I Pagliacci" - about the Clown who must perform despite a tragic heart - in a tent at a seedy seaside holiday resort. Each member of the troupe has a comic style based on a famous movie comedian/comedienne, from Charlie Chaplin to The Three Stooges & Lenny Bruce, from Judy Holiday & Mae West to Phyllis Diller. The resultant clash of comic styles culminates in tragedy.

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2 Acts

Play/Drama

1

-

-

Notes:
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Synopsis:
Spider' Webster is an ageing roadie from the days when all the job required was a strong back and a capacity for over-indulgence. But Spider can't cut it anymore. With a bad back, diminished self-esteem, a no understanding of today's technology, he plans revenge on the modern world by making one last tour. . . just him and his cat. . .

Nimrod Theatre

1982

Nimrod Theatre Company

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Musical

4

5

including a teenage couple (boy must be accomplished banjo player), and a Senior couple (violinist and cellist, but can be faked).

Notes:
written by Nick Enright and Terence Clarke. Best Drama, NSW Premiers Literary Awards, 1983

Synopsis:
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Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre

1979

Nimrod Theatre Company for the Sydney Theatre Company

Currency Press, Sydney

1996

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Musical Comedy

Musical

6

3

Five musicians

Notes:
a musical comedy by Nick Enright and Terence Clarke

Synopsis:
This musical romp is based on Carlo Goldoni's celebrated comedy of mistaken identity: twin brothers let loose on one mad day in Eighteenth Century Verona. The double central role is a gift to a bright young comedian. One of the female roles requires a good coloratura soprano.

WAAPA

1996/97

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Musical

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-

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Notes:
I know Nick Enright wrote a musical version of "The Voyage of Mary Bryant". The musical was written with the help of Musical Theatre students of WAAPA around 1996-97. I was a lighting student involved with the production at the time. You would have to go to WAAPA archives to get more info on the production which was in The Studio now known as the Nick Enright Theatre.
Fiona Reid

Synopsis:
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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One Act

3

5

chorus of women, doubling possible

Notes:
This version of the play was commissioned and broadcast by ABC.

Synopsis:
Euripides' Tragedy is a frightening parable of the after-math of war: Hecuba, dethroned queen of defeated Troy, must see her city burned, her family humiliated, as she and her women wait to be lead into exile.